Thank you, Chair.
Dr. Pai, the Canadian government invested $173 million in Medicago to produce the Covifenz vaccine in order to donate 200 million doses of vaccine to the world—to countries who most need it—yet WHO denied an emergency permit to do so because Philip Morris is the largest tobacco manufacturer in the world and has a big stake in the Medicago. How do you explain that?
Where is the fairness in distribution and in getting vaccines to the most needy when WHO stands in the way? Couldn't they provide some solutions to that, given the need for vaccination?